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1	Sappho: A New Translation more books like this by Sappho, Mary Barnard (Translator), Dudley Fitts (Foreword by) add to wishlist These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. see all copies from $2.87! new only from $10.19!
2	If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho more books like this by Sappho, Anne Carson (Translator) add to wishlist From the critically acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson: a splendid new translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek. "If Not, Winter" brings to life an extraordinary ancient poet through the efforts of an empathic contemporary poet. see all copies from $5.48! new only from $9.56! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Poetry of Sappho more books like this by Sappho, Jim Powell (Translator) add to wishlist Today, thousands of years after her birth, in lands remote from her native island of Lesbos and in languages that did not exist when she wrote her poetry in Aeolic Greek, Sappho remains an important name among lovers of poetry and poets alike,. Celebrated throughout antiquity as the supreme Greek poet of love and of the personal lyric, noted ... see all copies from $7.70! new only from $13.26! \| SVS
4	Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho more books like this by Sappho, Willis Barnstone (Translator), William E McCulloh (Epilogue by) add to wishlist Sappho is the greatest of the Greek lyric poets and one of the very few women poets of the ancient world whom we know by name. In translation Willis Barnstone remains faithful to the words of the fragments, only very judiciously filling in a word or phrase where the meaning is obvious. see all copies from $3.94! new only from $5.95! \| SVS
5	Poems and Fragments more books like this by Sappho add to wishlist This title is a new Sappho by a master poet and translator that treats the fragments as aesthetic wholes, complete in their fragmentariness, and which is also, as the translator puts it: "ever mindful of performative qualities, quality of voice, changes of voice...". see all copies from $9.07! new only from $9.07! \| first editions
6	Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho more books like this by Professor Jane McIntosh Snyder add to wishlist -- Choice see all copies from $2.38! new only from $9.98! \| first editions
7	Sappho: A New Translation more books like this by Mary Bernard, Mary Barnard, Sappho add to wishlist The hundred poems and fragments here translated into modern English constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives, and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.79! \| first editions
8	Sappho's Leap more books like this by Erica Jong add to wishlist Erica Jong takes the poet Sappho for her inspiration in this biographical novel, following her life from the age of 14, when she falls in love with the poet Alcaeus, through her many romantic adventures and finally her journey to the kingdom of Hades. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Art & Lies more books like this by Jeanette Winterson add to wishlist In this philosophical exploration of art, language, time, and identity, Winterson's novel sets three masters--Handel, Picasso, and Sappho--together on a high-speed train. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Sappho's Sweetbitter Songs: Configurations of Male and Female in Ancient Greek Lyric more books like this by Lyn Hatherly Wilson, Wilson Hatherly add to wishlist The woman-made work described in Sappho's songs have been discussed and analysed for centuries. In this volume, late 20th-century theories of feminism, psychoanalysis and literary criticism are applied to Sappho's lyrics. The study recreates and examines a voice that sings of the dreams and interactions of women and tells of the bodies, rhythms ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.77! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Classics and Contemporary Thought more books like this by Professor Ellen Greene (Editor) add to wishlist This volume considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the western cultural tradition. Contributors focus on literary history, mythic traditions, cultural studies, performance studies, recent work in feminist theory, and more. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $3.60! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Sappho History more books like this by Margaret Reynolds add to wishlist In "The Sappho History" Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid-18th century. For women writers in the Romantic period, she symbolized possibility; for the young Tennyson, she was a private ancestor helping him make his own name as a poet. Richly illustrated ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.05! \| first editions
13	Notes on thought and vision ; and, The wise Sappho more books like this by H.D. add to wishlist see all copies from $2.23! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Other Sappho more books like this by Ellen Frye add to wishlist Myths and history intertwine in this novel set in Sappho's world. "...a book that honors its Greek setting and is enjoyable, well-crafted, and thought-provoking". -- Belle Lettres see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.61! \| first editions
15 view cover	Sappho's Immortal Daughters more books like this by Margaret Williamson add to wishlist She lived on the island of Lesbos around 600 BCE. She composed lyric poetry, only fragments of which survive. And she was - and is - one of the most highly regarded woman poets of Greek and Roman antiquity. Little more than this can be said with certainty about Sappho, and yet a great deal more "is" said. Her life, so little known, is the stuff of ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $23.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Sappho's Lyre: Archaic Lyric & Women Poets of Ancient Greece more books like this by Sappho, Professor Diane Rayor (Translator), W R Johnson (Foreword by) add to wishlist Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric, new forms of poetry emerged. In this unique anthology, today's reader can enjoy the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.94! \| first editions \| SVS
17	Sappho: Poems and Fragments more books like this by Sappho add to wishlist see all copies from $6.42! new only from $9.27! \| first editions
18 view cover	Poems more books like this by Sappho add to wishlist This edition reintroduces Sappho to the modern reader, providing a vivid, contemporary translation, which captures the spareness and the intensity of Sappho's line. The wondrous Mary Barnard translation was based, unfortunately, on the 1928 Loeb edition by J.M. Edmonds, who filled in many of Sappho's fragment with his own Greek lines. In Professor ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $8.52! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Sappho through English poetry more books like this by Peter Jay (Editor), Caroline Lewis (Editor) add to wishlist The poetry of Sappho, who was born around 620 BC and lived on the Greek island of Lesbos, has inspired and fascinated readers and poets for two and a half thousand years. Today, as in antiquity, she is regarded as Greece's supreme lyric poet. Yet apart from a few near-complete poems, her poetry survives largely in tantalizing fragments. This book ... see all copies from $5.30! new only from $7.18! \| SVS
20	Art of Loving Women: The Poetry of Sappho more books like this by Sappho add to wishlist see all copies from $3.00! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
21 view cover	Victorian Sappho more books like this by Yopie Prins add to wishlist Prins's book examines the way the historical Sappho became, for Victorian poets like Swinburne, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon, a rhetorical Sappho, a figure they recast in order to authorize their own work. Prins argues that each selectively ignored some crucial aspect of the historical Sappho--her lesbianism, her heterosexuality- ... see all copies from $5.84! new only from $64.91! \| first editions
22	Reflections of Women in Antiquity more books like this by H P Foley add to wishlist see all copies from $14.99! new only from $47.50!
23	The Love Songs of Sappho more books like this by Paul Roche (Translator), Sappho, Page DuBois (Introduction by) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
24 view cover	Sappho and the Greek Lyric Poets more books like this by Willis Barnstone (Translator), Tzalopoulou Barnstone (Illustrator), William E McCulloh (Foreword by) add to wishlist Willis Barnstone has augmented his widely used anthology of the Greek lyric poets with eleven newly attributed Sappho poems, making this the most complete offering of Sappho in English. Two new sections--'Sources and Notes' and 'Sappho: Her Life and Poems'--provide the student with the classical sources and an appraisal of this greatest of Western ... see all copies from $1.99!
25	My Name is Sappho more books like this by Martha Rofheart add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00! first editions \| SVS

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